Word: mirror
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unfamiliar dailies were there on the newsstands. Only last week, everybody thought it was over, and the papers actually were ready to roll. At the Herald Tribune, the next morning's edition was on its way to the composing room. Atop New Jersey's Palisades, the Daily Mirror had rigged a fireworks display to celebrate the end of the affair. Outside the offices of the silenced dailies, hundreds of workers waited impatiently for the picket lines to part so they could dash inside...
Alice Toklas did not know. What Is Remembered is the sad, slight book of a woman who all her life has looked in a mirror and seen somebody else...
...gossamer-thin plastic bag that climbed over Palestine, Texas, dangled a 6,300-lb. L-shaped package as bulky as two Cadillacs. It was surely one of the most ungainly-looking loads ever hefted aloft. Designed and built by PerkinElmer Corp. of Norwalk, Conn., it contained a 36-in. mirror that would be a respectable size even for a solid-ground observatory, but that mirror was only the beginning. The telescope was suspended so that it could swing in all directions, under precise control by ground radio. It carried a coarse-vision television camera to act as a finder...
This a bit of self-diagnosis after a fullface look in the mirror on this, our 40th birthday. The first issue of TIME appeared exactly 40 years ago this week-March 3, 1923. It was, if we may be permitted a bit of fond reminiscence, an entirely new, stylish, venturesome, 30-page publication, all black and white and full of beans. It went to 12.000 charter subscribers, including some names that are printed rather large in history: Thomas A. Edison, Henry Ford, William Howard Taft, William Allen White, Booth Tarkington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some who were on the original list...
Died. Lee Mortimer, 56, New York Mirror columnist who for years as second-slinger to Walter Winchell covered Manhattan like it was something under a rock, then broke into the nonbook world as co author (with the late Jack Lait) of such penny dreadfuls as New York Confidential, Washington Confidential, Chicago Confidential, and U.S.A. Confidential, all of which earned him more libel suits than fame; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...